pipes
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Hi all
I seem to have contracted at least 8 viruses on my laptop, I don't know whether I've had them a while or not but it first came to my attention yesterday when I was browsing a website (not that sort!) and my internet browser went crazy and started opening loads of new tabs, i was eventually able to shut it down. Then i kept having a pop-up notice come up saying I have the virus 'win32.zafi.b'. Now, I have no virus protection (yes I know, i'm stupid) and I've tried downloading AVG, StopZilla and 'perfect defender' (whatever that is) and all of them just tell me I have viruses or infections but won't help me do anything about them unless I register with them. Now, aside from me being stingy, I can't do this as one of the viruses is one that takes sensitive information (ie credit card details) which i'd need to use to register with the various anti virus programs. Also, one of the viruses is stopping me from being able to use system restart (im on XP) - this is the first thing i tried as it worked when i previously had a virus. so im at a bit of a dead end... help, please??
Thanks in advance
Pipes
I seem to have contracted at least 8 viruses on my laptop, I don't know whether I've had them a while or not but it first came to my attention yesterday when I was browsing a website (not that sort!) and my internet browser went crazy and started opening loads of new tabs, i was eventually able to shut it down. Then i kept having a pop-up notice come up saying I have the virus 'win32.zafi.b'. Now, I have no virus protection (yes I know, i'm stupid) and I've tried downloading AVG, StopZilla and 'perfect defender' (whatever that is) and all of them just tell me I have viruses or infections but won't help me do anything about them unless I register with them. Now, aside from me being stingy, I can't do this as one of the viruses is one that takes sensitive information (ie credit card details) which i'd need to use to register with the various anti virus programs. Also, one of the viruses is stopping me from being able to use system restart (im on XP) - this is the first thing i tried as it worked when i previously had a virus. so im at a bit of a dead end... help, please??
Thanks in advance
Pipes